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This week we are showcasing Simon Says products You don’t have to use them for the challenge but if you have them we would love to see what you create with them.

The theme this week is Anything Goes and the team have been working with Spellbinders products, you don’t have to use them to enter but we would love to see what you can create with them.

The winner of the challenge will win a $50 voucher to spend at the store !

Before I get onto my card I am really sad that this will be my last week as Guest Designer, it been amazing to be part of the team for a month, and also for that month to be STAMPtember made it even better, I really have loved every minute of it and cannot thank everyone for having me.

For my card I have used the Hipster 1 die set from Spellbinders, I am a HUGE coffee nut so it just had to be this set for me as it contains a fab coffee cup in the Starbucks style, it even comes complete with a little die so you can create the wraps that put round them !

This was another total non planned and just sat down and see what happened card….seem to do them a lot lately. I decided to create a shaker using the die cut cups.

The sentiment is just perfect and is from the Choose Happy Stamp set by Simon Says Stamp (all supplies are listed and linked below). Sadly the papers I used are no longer available ! Although I am going to try and hunt some down because I LOVE this pad.

If you want to see how I created the card in more detail then check out the video below.

I hope you enjoyed the video, as you can see the dies are lots of fun to work with and I think they have become a firm favorite with me already !

I wanted to show a bit closer of the detail I added with the pens and Distress ink and also the embossing detail from the dies. If I had planned it better then I would got some coffee beans and added them to the shaker but we only have ground !

I also wanted to show that you don’t just have to use Sequins or beads in a shaker card and I am really pleased with how it turned out.

As you know Simon Says Stamp is currently having their STAMPtember event, click on the banner below to check out all the STAMPtember products, I know a few of the exclusives have sold out already !So if you see something you want make sure you grab it, I know I have missed out on most of the items I wanted by waiting. I have spoke to Simon Says Stamp who have confirmed that the Simon Releases will be restocked.

And Simon is also paring with various companies for an AMAZING giveaway.

Make sure you head on over to check the giveaway out, just click on the image above.

Thank you for stopping by.

Make sure you hit the banner below to check out the challenge, including all the amazing creations by the Design Team.

I hope you all have a great day and I cannot wait to see what you create for the challenge.

Happy crafting

x

I would like to enter this into the 2016 Fall Coffee Lovers Blog Hop which can be found here

I’m sharing a card today featuring stamps from Sunny Studio Stamps, If you have never heard of them then make sure you head on over to their website and check them out. They are cutesy stamps, but slightly different and I LOVE their style they produce some awesome stamp sets, they also do some fab dies too so make sure you check the out.

I have used their Backyard Bugs set which I will confess I purchased as soon as I saw the snail in the set.

Sometimes something just needs googly eyes and this guy for me was crying out for them.

I created the main background by stamping onto some Simon Says Stamp card stock (all links are below) in Simon Says Stamp Fern ink with some of the smaller stamps in this set, I then coloured them and went over them my Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle pen and die cut along the edges using Lawn Fawns Stitched border die.

I coloured the images using the following Spectrum Noir Markers-

IB1,IB2,DR7,DR6,DR5,DR3,CR11,CR10GB3,CT4,CT3,CT2,LY3,BG7,BG6,BG5,BG4,BG3,BG2,BG1,EB1,EB2,TN1,TN2,TN3. And fussy cut them out. I applied some glossy accents to the toadstools spots and windows, and whilst I waited for that to dry I created the background. I took some Neenah and using Twisted Citron & Tumbled Glass Distress inks and blended them to create a simple Grass-sky background.

The cloud is from the Mama Elephant Landscape trio set and I die cut some Neenah and stamped the “A little snail mail” sentiment along with two of the heart stamps using Simon Says Stamp Cobblestone ink….I did originally try this with vellum and embossing powder, but for this card it just didn’t look right to me. I adhered the cloud to the background and then decided to using some Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle over it…confession time, I squeezed the pen when I really shouldn’t have and ended up with a big drop on my distress ink background, I REALLY didn’t want to do the background again so I just flicked the pen across the background to give a sparkle splatter look…I am really not sure I like it, but I just went with it. I then die cut the Stitched Square frame from Neenah and using some foam tape I adhered it to the inked square. I then adhered the rest of the elements to the card, I decided to put the snail on the edge of the square and used some foam tape on him. I then adhered those googly eyes along with enamel dots and the card was done.

This card was a total non planned go with the flow type card, and I smile every time I look at it because that snail is just so much fun ! The toadstool house was brilliant to colour and you can see in the picture above the dimension from the Glossy Accents. I have sent this card to a friend in the states and I hope it makes her smile. Thank you all for stopping by my blog today. I hope you all have an amazing dayHappy Crafting x